Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social Independent global health news written by experienced journalists. Non-profit media company with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-crises.bsky.social We are a cross-faculty team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine focused on supporting and improving the health of everyone affected by #HumanitarianCrisis
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social The Food Equity Centre exists to challenge the power and politics that make food systems inequitable.
https://ids.ac.uk/foodequitycentre
Brazil, South Africa, UK
Gillian Mckay, DrPH @gillianleemckay.bsky.social Humanitarian Health Research Adviser @Elrha. DrPH from @LSHTM. Interested in #ReproHealth #SocialScience #HumanitarianResponse #Outbreaks and much more. Mum of two awesome kidlets. 🇨🇦🇬🇧she/her
Centre for Epidemic Preparedness & Response, LSHTM @lshtmcepr.bsky.social Bringing together global expertise, knowledge, research and teaching to help humanity adapt faster to outbreaks of disease.
Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) @k4dd.ids.ac.uk K4DD supports the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and other UK Gov. departments with learning and evidence to improve the impact of development and diplomacy policy and programmes.
https://k4dd.ids.ac.uk/
Bashàïr Ahmed @bashair.bsky.social Interest in all things #diaspora #migration #humanitarianism #Sudan #MiddleEast #HornofAfrica
Founder https://shabaka.org
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Rosi Avento @rosiavento.bsky.social Global Development Manager at University of Eastern Finland | Global Academic Partnerships | Biodiversity | Food Security | Jigsaws | Books
People in Need @peopleinneed.bsky.social 🇨🇿 Czech NGO present in +40 countries internationally; working in:
▪️Relief & Development Aid
▪️Social Integration
▪️Human Rights
https://www.peopleinneed.net
Catherine Grant @catherinegrant.bsky.social Researcher, Institute of Development Studies
Jochen Flasbarth @jochenflasbarth.bsky.social Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und Nukleare Sicherheit. Hier privat. State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Environment, Climate, Nature Conservation and Nukleare Safety. Views are my own.
@dianeduclos.bsky.social @dianeduclos.bsky.social
Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) @devgeogsrg.bsky.social Development Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
https://developmentgeographiesrg.org/
Dr Natalie Hammond @nataliejane.bsky.social Sociologist - Gender, health, climate, security & violence. Researching extreme environments from HIV, to conflict injury to climate disruption.
Likes reading, running, animals, the beach & being outside.
Manchester/Sheffield/Wales when I can.
Zoe Pannenborg @zoepannenborg.bsky.social
Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) @tipconsortium.bsky.social Global partnership for learning, experimentation & research on innovation for transformative system change
Led by DSTI South Africa, SENACYT Panama, VINNOVA Sweden, Sussex Uni/ Utrecht/ INGENIO, with hubs & associate members across Africa, Europe & LatAm
Valentina Barca @valentinabarca.bsky.social Tweeting on #socialprotection, often with a focus on #digital & #shocks. Previously SPACE (SP approaches to COVID19) Team Leader.
Gabriel Palazzo @gabrielmpalazzo.bsky.social Doing research on Economics at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
Macro; Development; Trade.
Dorte Thorsen @dortethorsen.bsky.social Research Fellow at IDS, working on mobilities, learning, gender and family relations in Africa. Special focus on children and youth. Views are mine, not my employer's.
Blue Community .net @blue-community.net News from Blue Communities - the Global Network for the Human Right to Water and Sanitation.
https://blue-community.net/ info@blue-community.net https://linktr.ee/BlueCommunityNet #WaterDefenders #right2water #bluecommunity
Matthew Stauder @mstauder.bsky.social Communications @SolarIndustry.bsky.social views here are my own
Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social Nutrition, food justice, health, cycling | writer, freelance
FOOD FIGHT https://canongate.co.uk/books/5139-food-fight-from-plunder-and-profit-to-people-and-planet/
SUBSTACK: stuartgillespie.substack.com
Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael @ezanahw.bsky.social Research Fellow, IDD, University of Birmingham | RCC | Urbanist | Political economy of urban transformation & citizens’ struggle for the right to the city | Africa | Tigray
Nathan Oxley @nathanoxley.bsky.social Omnia sunt communia // Research communication - interested in commons, commoning, nature(s), storytelling and creativity.
futurenatures.org / futurenatures.bsky.social
repairproject.org / repairproject.bsky.social
Mareike Wulff @mareikewulff.bsky.social social-& cultural anthropologist / ethnographer / bhutan & himalayan studies / buddhist studies / endangered languages documentation / material culture/ visual anthropology / uni of sydney/
https://sydney.academia.edu/MareikeWulff
School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social The School for Advanced Research.
Create. Connect. Understand.
SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Philip Proudfoot @philipproudfoot.bsky.social Researcher of activism, labour, accountability, and humanitarianism in the Arab World & elsewhere | co-founder of The Accountability Archive | Personal account, views, especially the bad ones, are my own.
@ianscoones.bsky.social @ianscoones.bsky.social
Dr Christos Christou @drchristou.msf.org Surgeon & Humanitarian Leader | Refuse to accept inhumanity as the default.
Pilar Garcia-Vello @pilargvello.bsky.social Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Epidemiology
Working for Doctors without Borders #MSF
Former: #WHO #LSHTM #MarieCurieFellowship
#AMR #medsky #episky #microsky #aidsky #idsky
Amrish Baidjoe @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social Infectious Disease Epidemiologist and Microbiologist.
Director of the Doctors without Borders (MSF) LuxOR Unit (Operational research and Epidemiology Support)
MSF Operational Centre Brussels
MSF Luxembourg
#episky
#medsky
Chris Lockyear @chrislockyear.msf.org
Anjoli @anjolianand.bsky.social She/her. Non-Communicable Disease advisor at Doctors Without Borders/MSF | Once-upon-a-time-ER Doctor | Former EIS Officer. Views are my own.
Karsten Weitzenegger @deveval.bsky.social #Knowledge and #networks needed by all #gender #development #evaluation practitioners to provide evidence for effective #GlobalGoals | #SDGs #Eval4Action
Kerry Albright @kerryalbright.bsky.social Bluesky newbie! @ADB.org evaluation. Former Deputy Director-Evaluation @UNICEF.org. Proud evidence champion and knowledge broker for children, science and international development.
Leah Murphy @leahmb.bsky.social Communications and Digital Marketing Officer @ids.ac.uk | She/Her | All views my own.
Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) – a renowned research institute and influential think tank for global sustainable development.
| Netiquette: https://blogs.idos-research.de/netiquette/
Steve Metcalfe @stevemetcalfe.bsky.social Interested in global development, inequality, the climate crisis. And cycling. Head of communications at the Institute of Development Studies @ids.ac.uk / www.ids.ac.uk
Stephen Thompson @stephenthomo.bsky.social Research on development, geography, and inclusion.
Fellow - Institute of Development Studies/University of Sussex
Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social Professor of environment & development; Water, sanitation, climate, covid; human rights; displacement; feminist; anti-fascist; Editor @Natureandspace; UK, India, Austria, Norway. Twitter migrant; also on @Lylamehta@mas.to & LinkedIn. Views my own;
UEF_GlobalDev @uefglobaldev.bsky.social Global development affairs at the University of Eastern Finland // Promoting global development in academia for sustainability, Promoting equity and responsibility in global academic partnerships
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Humanitarian Policy Group @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) is dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice through a combination of high-quality analysis, dialogue and debate. HPG is part of @odi.global, a leading global affairs think tank.
Website: www.odi.org/hpg
James Georgalakis @bloggs74.bsky.social Director of Evidence and Impact at the Institute of Development Studies and doctoral researcher at University of Bath. Interested in evidence into policy and epistemic communities.
All views my own
Stephanie Habib @stephaniehabib.bsky.social Behind-the-Scenes @ids.ac.uk. Former reporter, forever language nerd, occasional DJ, always at the mercy of my own hair. Tackling media bias and literacy, one case study at a time.
Erica Nelson @ericamnelson.bsky.social Research Fellow at IDS, practitioner of public health/global health humanities, oral historian and ethnographer by training, never met a dusty archive I didn't love
EADI @eadi.bsky.social We are the European Association of Development Institutes, the leading network in Europe for development research and training. #AcademicSky #EduSky #Development
Benjamin Mason Meier @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | Working at the intersection of #GlobalHealth & #HumanRights benjaminmasonmeier.com
Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social ID Physician. Associate Professor. Global public health, pandemic preparedness and response, emerging infectious diseases (COVID-19, viral hemorrhagic fevers, mpox). Former WHO medical officer in Health Emergencies. Section editor PLOS GPH and OFID.
Draginja Nadaždin @dnadazdin.bsky.social General Director at Doctors Without Borders Poland / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Poland,
formerly with Amnesty International
Personal acount, focused on human rights & humanitarian crisis
#MSF webpage in Polish: https://lekarze-bez-granic.pl
Sana Bég @sana.msf.ca Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.ca
Natalie Roberts @docnat.bsky.social Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders/MSF UK. Emergency doctor. Once part-owned Wrexham AFC 🏴
Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social Health/Law/Human Rights. Thinking globally, meeting CanCon requirements. Disproportionately but not exclusively access to medicines/global health/humanitarian response/public health/infectious disease.
Tim Shenk @tim.doctorswithoutborders.org Senior Communications Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA. Based in NYC and internationally focused. Opinions my own.
@doctorswithoutborders.org
Mariya Parodi @mariyaparodi.bsky.social Comms for good professional (Current: Media advisor to CIVICUS & advisor to CSP. Past: Amnesty International, UNICEF, IRC, PEN America, StoryCorps).
Lecturer at Schiller International University on peace & conflict.
"Mama" to my 3-year-old.
Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social Covering humanitarian crises and emergency response in @UNICEF.org global press office in New York City | https://jenglishcommunications.com/expert-commentary.html
Wyl @wyl.bsky.social Humanitarian stuff - Syria Iraq - get home to Ireland every now and again.
Doctoral Candidate - Uni Limerick #YNWA
https://emergencylogisticsteam.com/
bruno decock @brunodecock.bsky.social photographer and photo editor. Audiovisual senior advisor for Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
📍Ghent, Belgium
Philipp Frisch @phfrisch.bsky.social Germany Director at Human Rights Watch @hrw.org / @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social
Bruno Abarca @brunoabarca.bsky.social Public health in humanitarian aid and development cooperation. Working at Action Against Hunger (Spain HQ) and the GWU Milken Institute School of Public Health. Opinions are my own. https://saludeverywhere.com/en/
Hossam Elsharkawi @elsharkawi.bsky.social Humanitarian worker. Regional Director @IFRC
Mike Noyes @mikenoyes.eurosky.social Humanitarian aid worker & fuel poverty activist. Londoner, European, Arsenal supporter. Part of a migrant family. Metropolitan liberal values, pro international law, anti fascism, racism & abuse of power.
MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social Direct updates and information from Médicins Sans Frontières (#MSF) projects assisting migrants and refugees in Europe. RT≠ endorsement
Ben Parker @benparker140.eurosky.social Online news and social media with Newsmast. Humanitarian policy and practice, news and tech. Previous: CEO at The New Humanitarian, CoS at the Black Sea Grain Initiative, UN in Syria, Somalia, Sudans. Article 109 and ODI. Fedi: @benparker@newsmast.social
Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) @dndi.org International non-profit developing safe, effective, and affordable treatments for the most neglected patients.
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org The account of MSF International 🌎
We've been providing independent, impartial, and neutral humanitarian medical care since 1971.
Islamic Relief @islamicrelief.bsky.social Changing lives and empowering communities since 1984. Last year our humanitarian and development work helped 17 million people in 40 countries.
Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org The Global Think Tank.
carnegieendowment.org
Sarah Njeri @sndeall.bsky.social Lecturer Humanitarianism & Development @SOAS Development Studies. Humanitarian Disarmament especially Mine Action; Explosive Remnants of War; Environmental Peacebuilding, Communities; Knowledge production. https://linktr.ee/sndeall
Florian Krampe @floriankrampe.bsky.social Director Climate Change & Risk Programme @SIPRI.org | #ClimateSecurity, conflict, peacebuilding, & security | PhD Uppsala Peace | 🇸🇪🇩🇪 | Geriatric Millennial. FlorianKrampe.org
Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social Author and writer: Humanitarian, Human Rights, Development, War and Peace. Ex UN, WHO, Red Cross Red Crescent, UK Government. Professor Emeritus Univ of Manchester
Chris Houston @chrishouston.ca Executive Director @canadianpeacemuseum.ca, occasional writer, teaching humanitarianism @utoronto.ca, consulting at @humanitarianassociates.org
Ex @redcrosscanada.bsky.social 🇳🇵🇱🇧, @who.int 🇾🇪, @msf.org 🇨🇦🇵🇬🇳🇬🇪🇹🇹🇷🇵🇰, @gccanada.bsky.social
🌐 chrishouston.ca
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) @ids.ac.uk IDS is a leading institute on international development providing research and knowledge for equitable and sustainable societies. Follow us to know about our research, partnerships, and learning.
Website: https://www.ids.ac.uk/
surfimp @surfimp.bsky.social Director, Web at Direct Relief. Views and opinions expressed are wholly my own.
James Middleton @jaimiddleton.bsky.social Freelance copy editor and proofreader working with authors, publishers and researchers
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimiddleton
CETRI - Centre tricontinental @cetri-be.bsky.social Centre d'étude, de publication et de formation.
Rapports Nord-Sud, #Mondialisation, #MouvementsSociaux.
#Asie #Afrique #Amériquelatine
https://www.cetri.be/
Habitat International Coalition - HIC @habitat-intl.bsky.social HIC is the Global Coalition for the #rights to habitat and #socialjustice that promotes #humanrights related to #housing and #land in both rural and urban areas
Sylvie Bodineau @slvbod.bsky.social Anthropology, Research on humanitarianism, human rights, youth, child soldiers, child protection, DRC, CAR. Also birdwatching, woodcarving, gardening
https://independent.academia.edu/SylvieBodineau
Jigyasa @jigyasa.bsky.social 💼 External Affairs @ids.ac.uk
Former Journalist.
Views my own
#RightToTheCity Global Platform @righttothecity.bsky.social Action-oriented advocacy network committed to social change by promoting the #RightToTheCity as a core value for policies & actions worldwide🌐
👀Stay tuned!👇
Oxfam Intermón @oxfamintermon.org Creemos en un mundo donde todas las personas puedan disfrutar de sus derechos y tener oportunidades. Por eso trabajamos cada día para reducir las desigualdades.
Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society @pipps.bsky.social We're a research institute based at Simon Fraser University, focused on strengthening British Columbia’s capability to prevent, prepare for and respond to major infectious disease events.
Ganesh Dhungana @ganeshdhungana.bsky.social Project Lead, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University
#Humanitarian #DisasterResilience #DisasterGovernance #SocialCohesion #CrisisManagement
Rachel Bonnifield @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social Director of Global Health Policy & Senior Fellow @Cgdev. Global health, lead poisoning, R&D, AMR, pandemic prep, pharma, econ, and development, with a side of foster kittens. Views are my own.
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social I cover infectious diseases for STAT (www.statnews.com). 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. I write about H5N1 (in all species), Covid, polio, flu, Ebola, RSV, mpox, STIs. Send me news tips on Signal: HBranswell.01- V Victoria Fan @vfan.bsky.social Health systems, financing, policy, economics. Views my own.
Colum Lynch @columlynch.bsky.social Reporter at Devex News.
Priors: Foreign Policy Magazine, Washington Post
Brooklyn and United Nations
Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social United Nations Humanitarian Chief.
Ex Principal, Hertford College, Oxford; Ambassador, No 10, NYU Prof.
Diplomat, writer, educator, humanitarian.
UN Environment Programme @unep.org Official account of the United Nations Environment Programme
https://www.unep.org/
Institute of Health Equity @marmotihe.bsky.social The UCL Institute of Health Equity was established in 2011 and is led by Professor Sir Michael Marmot
Michael Marmot @michaelmarmot.bsky.social Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and Past President of the World Medical Association
Uma Kumaran MP @umakumaran.bsky.social 🌹Labour MP for Stratford and Bow
🇬🇧Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 🌍🌎🌏
👉🏾 www.umakumaran.co.uk
👉🏾 www.instagram.com/uma.kumaran.mp/
📧 uma.kumaran.mp@parliament.uk
Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk Structural engineer. Stadium design. Emergency shelter specialist & ex-humanitarian aidworker. Interested in good people-centred design, equity & (climate) justice.
FCDO Equality, Inclusion and Social Protection @fcdoinclusion.bsky.social Official account for FCDO’s work on inequality and equal rights for all, and strengthening social protection.
Humanitarian Associates @humanitarianassociates.org Advising organisations on strategy, climate, innovation, and a rapidly changing world.
Deep discounts for local orgs
🌐 humanitarianassociates.org
📸 Cholera supplies, WHO warehouse, Sana’a, Yemen/©️C. Houston, 2017
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca 🚑 Providing medical care where & when it’s needed.
🥼 Fournir des soins médicaux humanitaires là où les besoins sont les plus grands.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial. | Indépendant. Neutre. Impartial.
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